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Dance
Nichole Canuso
Choreographer – United States
Nichole Canuso’s dedication to dance manifests as performances, installations, films and intimate dialogues. Her projects often use technology to bring performers and audiences together in tender exchanges. Her work has been awarded fellowships (Pew fellow 2017; New York Stage & Film fellow 2021) and presented nationally (New York Live Arts, American Repertory Theater, Los Angeles Performance Practice) and internationally (Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Czech Republic).
While in residence Nichole will be developing Lunar Retreat, a multi-sensory, interactive performance installation. Named after the slow, rhythmic inevitability of the growing distance between the earth and the moon, Lunar Retreat explores our individual and communal experiences of the cycles of caretaking, loss and transformation. Choreographic prompts on headphones will guide participants into a labyrinthine performance experience in which they can explore and reflect both alone and together.
Film/Video
Tamar Baruch
Filmmaker – Israel
Tamar Baruch is a filmmaker born in 1987 in Haifa, Israel. Drawing on her experience as a first-generation immigrant of Tunisian and Iranian descent, she directs her films towards critical human-rights issues, with a particular focus on refugee narratives. Baruch received an M.A. in Documentary Film from NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she was a Fulbright fellow, and a B.F.A. in Film from Tel-Aviv University's Steve Tisch School of Film and York University's Film Department.
Tamar Baruch will be working on a new feature-length film set in Senegal. The story centers on a love affair between a French activist and a Senegalese fisherman. The couple migrates to France in hopes of starting a life, but once in France, they struggle to belong. Through this film, Baruch aims to examine the enduring effects of colonialism on Senegalese and French societies, exploring the dissonance and struggle faced by characters caught between different cultural, political, and social worlds.
Humanities Scholarship
Milena Anfosso
(Classics) – Author and Scholar – United States/Italy
Milena Anfosso (PhD, Sorbonne University) has held research appointments at Harvard University and UCLA. Multilingual herself, she has published and lectured on multilingualism in Antiquity, focusing on linguistic interactions among different populations in Anatolia between the 2nd and 1st millennium BCE, with a particular interest in ancient curses and black magic. Additionally, Milena has worked on Calabrian dialectology and folklore. Based in Los Angeles, she has served as a linguistic consultant in the entertainment industry and is currently co-authoring a YA fantasy novel.
At Bogliasco, Milena will work on her monograph exploring Timotheus of Miletus’s language in the Persians (late 5th-century BCE), a complex piece of Greek literature that narrates the Battle of Salamis (480 BCE) from the Persians’ perspective. Using her extensive knowledge of Ancient Greek, Phrygian, Lydian, and Old Persian, Milena explains Timotheus’s unusual linguistic choices in terms of sociolinguistic mimesis. She also discusses the strategies that he used to convey the 'otherness' of his characters in comparison with other ancient authors and in the frame of so-called 'New Music.'
